IN THE THIRD PROGRAMME: RECORDING OF A PERFORMANCE AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, NEW YORK
A MUSIC DRAMA IN THREE ACTS AND FIFTEEN SCENES Act 1: 7.40-8.20
The Captain's room: early morning - An open field, the town in the distance: late afternoon - Marie's room: evening - The Doctor's consulting-room: a sunny afternoon - The street outside Marie's front door: twilight Act 2: 8.40-9.20
Marie's room: mid-morning— In the street: daytime - The street outside Marie's room: a gloomy day - A tavern garden: late evening - Guard room in the barracks: night Act 3: 9.30-10.0 Marie's room: night, candle-light - A woodland path by a pond-A low tavern dimly lighted—A woodland path by a pond: moonlight—Outside Marie's front door made available by courtesy of Voice of America

BASED ON THE PLAY BY GEORG BUCHNER

English translation by Vida Harford and Eric Blackall

Music by Alban Berg

THE CAPTAIN.................................Paul Franke WOZZECK, the Captain's batman....Hermann Uhde MARIE, his wife Eleanor Steber ANDRES, a soldier, Wozzeck's friend Charles Anthony MARGRET, a neighbour............Margaret Roggero THE DOCTOR.................................Karl Doench THE DRUM MAJOR...........................Kurt Baum FIRST APPRENTICE...................Ezio Flagello SECOND APPRENTICE.......................Calvin Marsh AN IDIOT................................Alessio De Paolis A soldier Earl Ringland A TOWNSMAN...............,..........Charles Kuestner MARIE'S CHILD..............................Alice Plotkin

Chorus and Orchestra of the METROPOLITAN OPERA, NEW York

Conducted by Karl Bohm

Producer, Herbert Graf